Senior Finance Manager

Duration:  6 months+

Strong excel skills.
Attention to detail/accuracy/accountable.
FP&A Experience
Consolidation presentation to leadership team/investors, etc.

The FP&A group is currently seeking a Senior Manager to support our business focusing on financial planning and consolidation. The successful candidate will help develop, communicate and monitor departmental and product budgets and forecasts with a keen eye on achieving the overall financial target.

Responsibilities
? Provide weekly flash and management financial report to News Corp parent company and DJ leadership team.
? Consolidate and create monthly, quarterly and yearly results and forecasts into management level presentations to articulate financial performance.
? Assist budget and long range plan process to drive revenue growth and cost efficiency.
? Develop corporate reporting and identify systems and data improvements.
? Maintain a good understanding of the revenue and cost drivers and trends, and prepare reports to senior management.
? Maintain the FP&A group’s deadlines in order to deliver key consolidated reporting needs within the finance group and to our parent company.
? Assist in driving project work from end to end (collection of data, creation of model/analysis of trends, and support identification of key issues and turning this into a management level presentation) to support strategic decisions within the business.
? Manage and develop a team of analysts.

Skills & Experience
? Relevant Commercial Finance experience 8 years+.
? CPA or Bachelors degree in finance or accounting preferred.
? Highly organized and strong process management to deliver highest standards of accuracy and quality of weekly flash, monthly outlook, quarterly close, and annual budget deliverables under tight deadline

? Strong quantitative and financial modeling skills to identify key business movement and influence business decisions
? High degree of proficiency in PC/computer skills including advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills, experience with Dashboards and / or BI a plus
? Strong written and verbal communication skills
? SAP and TM1 financial systems experience preferred.
? Demonstrates problem solving capacities, self-motivated, and a team player.